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050  4 DS135.N5 |bA6925 2015
100 1  Woerkom, Bernadette van, |eauthor.
245 10 Leonard Freed : |bafter the war was over : Jewish life in Amsterdam in the 1950s / |cBernadette van Woerkom.
246 30 After the war was over
246 30 Jewish life in Amsterdam in the 1950s
264  1 Amsterdam : |bSchilt Publishing, |c[2015]
300    158 pages : |billustrations ; |c25 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    Published in connection with the exhibition "After the war was over: Leonard Freed photographs Jewish Amsterdam in the 1950s" in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam from October 30, 2015 to February 14, 2016.
520 8  At the start of his life-long career, Magnum photographer Leonard Freed (1929-2006) lived for many years in Amsterdam, from 1957 till 1970. As an American Jew, coming from a family of Russian immigrants, he felt at ease in this historic city with its liberal spirit and longstanding tradition of tolerance to Jews. Fascinated by the remarkable recovery after the Holocaust of Jewish life in Amsterdam, where only 14,000 of 75,000 Jews survived, the young Freed made this the topic of his first documentary as a professional photographer. Immersing himself in the Amsterdam Jewish community for more than a year in 1957-1958, he visited synagogues, study centres, schools and festivities, and followed people in their homes, at work and on the streets. Working within the traditions of humanistic photography, Freed made a multifaceted and compelling portrayal of a community that had endured unimaginable sufferings, but was now trying to forget, and rebuild a new life, demonstrating a striking resilience and vitality. Considering himself to be an author rather than a journalist, from the onset it was Freed's aim not to make an encyclopaedia of Jewish life, but to paint an atmosphere, "to depict a vibrant community." He therefore focused optimistically on the younger generations and left out any hints to the Holocaust, such as the ruins of the Jewish quarter. This hopeful perspective, of looking at the future and forgetting the past, seems to be both a reflection of Freed's own outlook on life and the prevailing spirit in the Jewish community in the 1950s. Today, in hindsight, we know that the traumas of war were still lingering on and could not be ignored, to burst out in the 1960s and 1970s. This knowledge of hidden pain and silence brings to the pictures a duality, a historical layering and a sense of poignancy, that Freed and the people he photographed could not have been aware of. Exhibition: Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (30.10.2015-14.02.2016).
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Jews |zNetherlands |zAmsterdam |vPictorial works |vExhibitions.
650  0 Documentary photography |zNetherlands |zAmsterdam |vExhibitions.
650  0 Jews |zNetherlands |zAmsterdam |xSocial life and customs |vExhibitions.
600 10 Freed, Leonard |vExhibitions.
655  7 Illustrated works. |2lcgft
655  7 Exhibition catalogs. |2lcgft
700 12 Freed, Leonard. |tPhotographs. |kSelections.
710 2  Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
852 0   |bstacks |hDS135.N5 |iA6925 2015